GOD HAS NINETY NINE NAMES
Subtitle: Reporting from a Militant Middle East
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 16, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780684832289
Subjects: Christianity; Politics/International Relations; Middle East; International Relations - General; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; Middle East - General; Islam - General; Current Events / General; International; 1979-; Islam and politics; Muslims
First sentence: ON MY FIRST DAY as Cairo bureau chief of The New York Times in August 1983, I saw a donkey drop dead just outside my office on Kasr el Nil, a major commercial street where smart shoppers, young men on motorbikes and bicycles, donkey carts, taxis, and smoke-belching buses jostle for space on the narrow roadway.